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Exiles
James Joyce
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Description for Exiles
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'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha, characters drawn from Joyce's own life with Nora Barnacle. After a decade of absence from Dublin, Richard and Bertha have returned home from Rome, still unmarried, with their young son Archie. Richard hopes that he will be greeted as a returning genius and rewarded with a comfortable university position. But ... Read more
'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law wife Bertha, characters drawn from Joyce's own life with Nora Barnacle. After a decade of absence from Dublin, Richard and Bertha have returned home from Rome, still unmarried, with their young son Archie. Richard hopes that he will be greeted as a returning genius and rewarded with a comfortable university position. But ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198800064
SKU
V9780198800064
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Ref
99-2
About James Joyce
Keri Walsh is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University in New York. She is the editor of James Joyce's Dubliners (Broadview Press, 2016) and The Letters of Sylvia Beach (Columbia University Press, 2010.)
Reviews for Exiles
The book is complete with Walsh's useful notes and a well-established text and can safely be recommended to students.
Valérie Bénéjam, James Joyce Quarterly
Valérie Bénéjam, James Joyce Quarterly